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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-08-01 18:03:49 -0400
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-08-01 18:03:49 -0400
commit9c2decaa1935ae4bf99a9b723d4eab188f8f88ef (patch)
tree97cf99d322e6b3495c2629b66fead0813378bd07 /doc
parent5170c5691aac1bd6abc69be65cf880316e11fe24 (diff)
parent234ce610e0671410cb8a9ce4d8725e55472e8d47 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/opt-common-syn.xml5
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/opt-common.xml12
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/package-management.xml15
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/opt-common-syn.xml b/doc/manual/opt-common-syn.xml
index 6628fde93..d65f4009e 100644
--- a/doc/manual/opt-common-syn.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/opt-common-syn.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@
<option>-I</option>
<replaceable>path</replaceable>
</arg>
+<arg>
+ <option>--option</option>
+ <replaceable>name</replaceable>
+ <replaceable>value</replaceable>
+</arg>
<sbr />
</nop>
diff --git a/doc/manual/opt-common.xml b/doc/manual/opt-common.xml
index b9df23dcf..0b5751767 100644
--- a/doc/manual/opt-common.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/opt-common.xml
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@
<listitem><para>Causes Nix to print out a stack trace in case of Nix
expression evaluation errors.</para></listitem>
-
+
</varlistentry>
@@ -351,6 +351,16 @@
</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry><term><option>--option</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Set the Nix configuration option
+ <replaceable>name</replaceable> to <replaceable>value</replaceable>.
+ This overrides settings in the Nix configuration file (see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nix.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>).</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
</variablelist>
diff --git a/doc/manual/package-management.xml b/doc/manual/package-management.xml
index 8cc6aa857..314218daf 100644
--- a/doc/manual/package-management.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/package-management.xml
@@ -175,21 +175,6 @@ upgrading `coreutils-5.0' to `coreutils-5.2.1'</screen>
</para>
-<para>If you grow bored of specifying the Nix expressions using
-<parameter>-f</parameter> all the time, you can set a default
-location:
-
-<screen>
-$ nix-env -I nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable></screen>
-
-After this you can just say, for instance, <literal>nix-env -u
-'*'</literal>.<footnote><para>Setting a default using
-<parameter>-I</parameter> currently clashes with using Nix channels,
-since <literal>nix-channel --update</literal> calls <literal>nix-env
--I</literal> to set the default to the Nix expressions it downloaded
-from the channel, replacing whatever default you had
-set.</para></footnote></para>
-
</section>